2.Committee members quickly shared their current teaching commitments.

3. Finding Aids revisited, Au and Jeris. Following further discussion of Finding Aids, Subject
Guides and course guides the following recommendations were made:

Remove existing Finding Aids page.

Replace it with the draft shorter page, but remove links to three campuses and
their class Guides (Contemporary Women Playwrights is to change to a
Subject Research Guide).

Add a link for Class Guides on the Library Instruction/Information Learning Tools for
Students and link to existing class guides pages in Camden and Newark and add a link for New
Brunswick/Piscataway as class guides become available. ISC acknowledges and encourages the
integration of class guides into course management systems as well as the importance of a
mechanism for sharing such instructional resources among librarian colleagues. The latter
will be accomplished through the development of a new instruction repository using Sakai.
Jeris will create the new repository, migrating up-to-date and useful materials from the
currently existing instruction repository to the new site as a source for sharing finding
aids and other instructional materials among librarians.

Au and Jeris will write joint letter to research guide owners requesting that they
place links within their subject guides to relevant finding aids and class guides as appropriate.

Au and Jeris will prepare a second letter to library faculty encouraging creators of new
finding aids and class guides to notify research guide authors of new works that could be
appropriately incorporated into their research guides.

4. Eileen previously forwarded an email from ETS to ISC members providing information and
access passwords and websites for a demo version of both the Core and Advanced versions of
the iSkills assessments. The free access remains available through October 4^th . RUL staff
PCís will require the assistance of a PC Coordinator/Unit Computing Specialist with
administrator access to run a program checking the PC for sufficient robustness to view the
assessment in a recent Internet Explorer browser. The PC Coordinator/UCS must also allow
download of a program that makes the IE Browser secure. Screen resolution must also be
adjusted for the iSkills assessment.

Committee members are asked to complete one of the assessments before the access period
expires. We will not receive a report on our ICT literacy skills, as this is not available in
the free demo. Please consider how this assessment could be used (needs assessment, formative
assessment or summative assessment.)

Eileen will contact ETS to obtain pricing for a version of iSkills that would report skill
level strengths and weaknesses. At the next ISC meeting we will discuss the cost and inviting
assessment-oriented RU faculty and administrators to take one of the assessments and receive
an evaluation of their skills.

5. Triveni shared her extensive work on developing Subject Information Literacy standards in
cooperation with ACRL, the American Sociological Association and the American Anthropological
Association. She shared workshop materials used at a highly successful American Sociological
Association Conference. She and her committee members made very strong working alliance with
two anthropology and sociology professors from Southwestern University and Roanoke College.